Diverse experience & global network

Heang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Qualgro (2015). He has led many investments in data/AI and SaaS at Seed to Series B and has helped our portfolio companies grow regionally and globally. He has supported many companies on their fund raising and for realizing exits, through an extensive network of investors and international companies.

His records include investments into 3 unicorns, several full-exits including 1 IPO and 3 acquisitions by international players.

He was previously a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company (26 years) and a member of the McKinsey Global Board, with many years of experience in Europe and Asia. Before and during McKinsey, he was an entrepreneur building a series of companies. Deep business experience and networks in Consumer, Retail/e-commerce, Banking/Fintech and Technology.

Olivier is a Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member based in Paris, and has been involved in every Qualgro investment since 2015. He regularly travels to Asia, and interacts with entrepreneurs and co-investors in the region.

Olivier is a Professor, a well-known writer and consultant specializing in ‘strategic thinking and decision-making processes’. He was a Senior Partner at McKinsey (more than 20 years) with experience in Europe and the United States. He has served clients in private equity, venture capital, healthcare and consumer sectors, and sits on the advisory boards of several companies.

Badai is an Investment Manager in Qualgro with a focus in areas such as AI, robotics, data, SaaS, lending, MedTech and marketplaces. He has led diligence processes and manages portfolio companies in Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe, with a focus on Indonesia.

Prior to Qualgro, Badai worked in innovation consulting, operations and research roles - in Singapore and New York, where he worked in a tech startup incubator. He graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor in Business Administration.

Lum Jia has conducted analysis and due diligence in areas such as enterprise SaaS, data and other B2B spaces, with a focus in Southeast Asia.

Prior to Qualgro, Lum Jia pioneered NUS Angel Ventures, an angel investment network in Singapore. She previously worked in venture capital in China, with a focus on immersive technology such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Lum Jia graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor in Business Administration.

Sheryl is the Marketing and Content Manager at Qualgro, where she leads marketing, content strategy, partnerships, and community programs.

Prior to joining Qualgro, she was a Program Manager at Google Cloud for Startups, where she covered events, programs and partnerships across JAPAC.

She was previously a Content Manager at Innovfest Unbound, where she ran Innovfest Festival and Smart Nation Summit. She was also previously at Tech in Asia, where she ran conferences in Singapore, Tokyo, and Jakarta.

Sheryl holds a Bachelor in Sociology and a Minor in Entrepreneurship from Nanyang Technological University.

Chin Chao is a Senior Business Advisor for Qualgro. He has over 20 years of experience in venture capital and venture debt having worked with emerging growth businesses in Silicon Valley, China and Southeast Asia.

Chin was most recently the CEO/first-employee of Innoven Capital, Southeast Asia, a venture debt provider to high-growth companies and grew Innoven to be the leading venture debt provider in the region. Chin was previously a Managing Director of venture capital firm Venture TDF (both in Singapore and in China), where he made investments into companies such as AAC Acoustics, Alibaba.com and Baidu. He also co-founded the TechFinancing Centre, a joint-venture dedicated to providing innovative venture debt solutions to growth-oriented companies in Asia.